- AudioQuest Forest Digital Audio Optical Cable - 3M
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| Latest | $40.00 20 hrs ago |
| Highest | $48.75 Jun 7, '15 |
| Lowest | $40.00 Jan 11, '16 |
| Average | $40.00 (30d avg) $40.40 (90d avg) $44.58 (180d avg) $46.61 (365d avg) $47.68 (Lifetime average) |
| Added | Dec 3, 2013 |
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| Highest | $39.99 Jul 1, '15 |
| Lowest | $18.00 Feb 24, '16 |
| Average | $18.00 (30d avg) $21.27 (90d avg) $26.36 (180d avg) $28.47 (365d avg) $32.21 (Lifetime average) |
| Added | Dec 3, 2013 |
The audio frontier is all abuzz these days with the pleasure possible though HDMI, USB, FireWire and Ethernet connections. However, these current generation digital technologies are only part of the story, just as the challenge of designing, manufacturing and choosing the best analog interconnects and speaker cables is as important as ever. The S/P-DIF (Sony Philips Digital InterFace), which arrived in 1983 along with the CD, is still very much a part of our world today. S/P-DIF is transmitted through Digital Coax and Toslink fiber optics (EIA-J), making them still some of the most important cables in electronic entertainment. While, thanks to HDMI, Toslink is not so often used to connect a DVD player to an A/V receiver, Toslink connectors are common on cable-boxes, TV sets, subwoofers, all sorts of products. For these many reasons, AudioQuest has refined and renewed our line of serious high performance OptiLink cables. All models and all lengths are now available Toslink to Toslink. When the question is "how can a fiber-optic cable change the sound?" ... the answer is easier to explain than for almost any other type of cable. If the light source were a coherent laser, firing into a vacuum, all the light would stay straight, arriving at its destination at the same time. Even if the LED light source in a Toslink system were coherent, the light entering a fiber-optic cable is scattered and dispersed by imperfections and impurities in the fiber. This can be measured as a loss of amplitude ... but amplitude is not the problem, a 50% true loss would have no effect on sound quality.
| Latest | $49.98 1 day ago |
| Highest | $49.98 Mar 12, '14 |
| Lowest | $49.98 Mar 12, '14 |
| Average | $49.98 (30d avg) $49.98 (90d avg) $49.98 (180d avg) $49.98 (365d avg) $49.98 (Lifetime average) |
| Added | Mar 12, 2014 |
AudioQuest - OptiLink Forest 9.8' In-Wall Optical Cable - Black/Green